SUNDAY March 5, 1995 QV PARK ROYAL Home & Garden Show is coming Mon. Mareh 6 to Sun. March £2 “North Shore's Largest Home Show" & Classifieds. i Crossword. & Entertainment................23 ‘@ Hunter. sesceanessecsersnseee Inside Stories..............15 @ Municipal Affairs..........12 BEN. Shore Alert................8 FB Sports... ccccsscccssssessnceensseeene 14 _ ff Sunshine Girl................ 19 ae B THAVEH...csessesrsesssernseseeneree 2G “TV Listings... 24 .@ Historic log dam subject of study: 10 Mayors oppose _-, lottery terminals: 3 ' &@ POGs power kids’ _ gaming craze: 3 ® LGH doctor wins Budapest award: 5 fy ures ® ine SyhsNiece es ” ie} NCOUVER wae " NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge Sewer salvage Weather Monday: mainly cloudy with showers High 6'C, low 0°C. $100,000 design for Montroyal THE CONTROVERSIAL Mont- royal connector will not be built in 1995. NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL By Martin Millerchip The decision to put the North Vancouver traffic link-on hold was made Tuesday night during North Vancouver District’s ongoing capital budget debate. Council unanimously agreed to allo- cute only $100,000 this year for the design stage of the road that could link Montroyal eastwards to Upper Lonsdale via Rockland. The provisional budget had listed the cost of the connector at $1 million, although opponents have suggested that the real costs of the traffic artery will be higher. Coun. Pam Goldsmith-Jones, who pre- sented the motion to put the connector on hold this year, said it was unlikely that the connector could be completed in 1995 even if council was to make that decision. “In looking at the capital budget, to reserve $1 million in funding seems to be unfair to a number of other projects that ... could be completed in 1995,” said Goldsmith-Jones. Mayor Murray Dykeman said it was important for people to ‘understand that council was not making a decision for or against the connector Tuesday night. Dykeman said he had yet to make up his mind in the wake of a technical study by traffic consultants N.D. Lea Ltd. not yet presented to council. “If we want to make a decision tonight A ROCK blew a hole in a Deep Cove sewer pump, causing the pump to shut down and the system to back up, said North Vancouver District environmental protection officer Mel Kotyk. Workers pumped out the sewage Thursday to start repairs, which were expected to be finished Friday. Sewage did not appear to escape into Deep based on dollars, why did we make a deci- sion last August to undertake a study and review the whole program?” he said. @ TV show tauches on .. tattoo design: 17 NV hair sation offers ‘ wideo imaging: = 15 7 North Shore caricaturist ' Cameron Bird finds “a market for fine art. Cove, said Kotyk. Damage estimates were not available to press time. A NORTH Vancouver man who plead- ed guilty to 23 charges relating to an estimated $250,000 worth of stolen computers belonging to Lower Mainland businesses received two years’ probation on Friday. By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter “This is definitely your last chance,” said Mr. Justice Kenneth C, Mackenzie in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. The accused, Richard Warner, 24, of North Vancouver, has been in jail since September. The time served in jai] was added to his sentence. . ay b Warner was jailed after he breached a bail condition relating to a major seizure of stolen computers on June 26. North Vancouver RCMP obtained a search warrant for Warner's hame in the 800-block West 19th Street in connection with the bail breach of a 22-count indictment. Two new burglary-related charges resulted. The business computer crime spree took place during 1993 and !994. Police recovered the June computer haul after another burglary suspect led them to Warner. Among the businesses named in Warner's charges were The Canadian Coast Guard, Howard Y-nao Partners Architects, Perimeter Technology Corp... Chernoff Thompson Architects, Cheni Gold Mines tne., The Letter Shop, International Hard Suits Inc., Squirrel! sags " oo SHORE Sit IONS ee ese See Design page 2 ti Companies of Canada Ltd., and the North’ Shore Association for the Mentally Handicapped. Crown lawyer Trevor Cockfield had rec- ° ommended a 12- to 18-month jail term for Warner in addition to the time he had already served, ‘Wiirner’s lawyer Neil Cobb said probation was appropriate. He claimed “misguided media accounts” may view probation as a “slap on the wrist.” Cobb said Warner was addicted to heroin with a drug habit worth hundreds of dollars each day. In an articulate plea for leniency to the judge, Warner said his head was clear of the drugs now and that he could think straight again. ; ; Warner has an extensive criminal record.